The Northern Fleet’s missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov conducted a series of live-fire exercises in the Barents Sea as part of planned combat training activities. This was reported by the NF press service.
“During the practical actions, the cruiser’s crew worked out all types of defense of a single ship during a sea crossing, and also completed tasks to suppress the targets of a simulated enemy located on the coast,” the statement said.|
According to the press service, artillery fire was carried out at coastal targets on the coast of the Rybachy Peninsula at a distance of more than 15 km using the ship’s main caliber – the AK-130 artillery mount. The combat crew of the Osa-MA2 anti-aircraft missile system, during the repulsion of a simulated attack by enemy attack vehicles, carried out practical launches of anti-aircraft missiles at air targets. Anti-aircraft missiles were also fired at a surface target, which was a sea target.|
During the anti-submarine exercise, which was held in a bilateral format, one of the Northern Fleet’s nuclear submarines acted on the side of the mock enemy. The cruiser’s sailors promptly detected the underwater target and classified it. At the final stage of the exercise, the cruiser’s crew practiced repelling an attack by a mock enemy submarine using anti-submarine weapons systems against a simulated underwater target. The firing was carried out with jet depth charges and a practical homing electric torpedo.
At sea, training was also conducted on ship defense when moored in an unprotected roadstead, during which inputs were worked out on detecting underwater saboteurs using a hydroacoustic station and their destruction. Particular attention was paid to counteracting unmanned boats and other robotic systems of the simulated enemy. Ship exercises were conducted on survivability under various scenarios and inputs.
The combat exercises were conducted at the Northern Fleet’s combat training grounds. The firing areas were promptly closed to shipping and civil aviation flights.